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Picsearch	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
Swedish	O
company	O
which	O
developed	O
and	O
provided	O
image	B-General_Concept
search	I-General_Concept
services	O
for	O
large	O
websites	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
image	B-General_Concept
search	I-General_Concept
services	O
developed	O
by	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
power	O
several	O
major	O
Internet	O
companies	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Lycos	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
customers	O
include	O
regional	O
search	B-Application
portals	I-Application
in	O
Germany	O
,	O
Turkey	O
and	O
an	O
Arabic	O
language	O
portal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Customers	O
outside	O
the	O
sphere	O
of	O
search	B-Application
portals	I-Application
included	O
telecoms	O
,	O
entertainment	O
sites	O
,	O
e-commerce	O
,	O
sport	O
websites	O
,	O
yellow	O
pages	O
and	O
communities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
2000	O
-	O
2022	O
"	O
and	O
its	O
usual	O
service	O
pages	O
went	O
dark	O
.	O
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<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
also	O
developed	O
an	O
Online	O
Video	O
Platform	O
under	O
the	O
brand	O
name	O
Screen9	O
which	O
is	O
used	O
for	O
video	O
communities	O
,	O
vlogging	O
(	O
video	O
blog	O
)	O
,	O
video	O
reviews	O
on	O
e-commerce	O
sites	O
,	O
corporate	O
video	O
presentations	O
,	O
news	O
videos	O
and	O
virtual	O
showings	O
on	O
real	O
estate	O
portals	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
was	O
developed	O
and	O
founded	O
in	O
the	O
year	O
,	O
1999	O
–	O
2000	O
,	O
at	O
Linköping	O
University	O
by	O
two	O
engineering	O
students	O
Nils	O
Andersson	O
and	O
Robert	O
Risberg	O
,	O
who	O
were	O
working	O
on	O
their	O
Master	O
of	O
Science	O
in	O
Applied	O
Physics	O
and	O
Electrical	O
Engineering	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
was	O
launched	O
in	O
2000	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
first	O
public	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
image	B-General_Concept
search	I-General_Concept
engine	I-General_Concept
was	O
available	O
in	O
September	O
2001	O
,	O
around	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
that	O
Google	B-Application
launched	O
its	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ditto.com	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
public	O
image	B-General_Concept
search	I-General_Concept
engine	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
service	O
was	O
slightly	O
more	O
expensive	O
than	O
Google	B-Application
and	O
Yahoo	O
,	O
but	O
according	O
to	O
many	O
of	O
its	O
licensing	O
partners	O
,	O
provides	O
a	O
higher	O
relevance	O
and	O
better	O
family-friendliness	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
was	O
notable	O
for	O
providing	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
largest	O
searchable	B-Application
indexes	O
,	O
providing	O
over	O
3	O
billion	O
images	O
in	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
compares	O
with	O
Google	B-Application
(	O
2.2	O
billion	O
images	O
)	O
and	O
Yahoo	O
(	O
1.6	O
billion	O
images	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
also	O
offered	O
an	O
image	O
removal	O
service	O
for	O
those	O
wanting	O
their	O
images	O
removed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
services	O
included	O
localization	O
features	O
to	O
tailor	O
the	O
search	B-Application
service	I-Application
to	O
regional	O
markets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
supported	O
the	O
following	O
languages	O
:	O
Latin	O
alphabet	O
,	O
Chinese	O
characters	O
,	O
Cyrillic	O
script	O
,	O
Arabic	O
alphabet	O
,	O
Brahmic	O
scripts	O
,	O
Hangul	B-Operating_System
,	O
Greek	O
alphabet	O
and	O
Hebrew	O
Alphabet	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
22nd	O
of	O
March	O
2007	O
,	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
implemented	O
a	O
new	O
environmental	O
policy	O
making	O
them	O
the	O
first	O
carbon	O
neutral	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
in	O
the	O
world	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
initiative	O
was	O
followed	O
by	O
promises	O
from	O
Yahoo	O
in	O
April	O
and	O
Google	B-Application
in	O
June	O
to	O
go	O
carbon	O
neutral	O
by	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
plants	O
1000	O
new	O
trees	O
for	O
every	O
gigawatt-hour	O
consumed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
buys	O
and	O
holds	O
in	O
trust	O
of	O
old	O
growth	O
forest	O
for	O
every	O
gigawatt-hour	O
consumed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
only	O
uses	O
electricity	O
that	O
is	O
carbon	O
free	O
and	O
follows	O
the	O
highest	O
standard	O
of	O
production	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
buys	O
carbon	O
credits	O
equivalent	O
to	O
all	O
the	O
energy	O
that	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
consumes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2007	O
the	O
Swedish	O
National	O
Criminal	O
Police	O
started	O
working	O
with	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
to	O
incorporate	O
a	O
special	O
filter	O
,	O
which	O
will	O
block	O
the	O
visibility	O
of	O
4000	O
websites	O
with	O
commercial	O
child	O
pornography	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Introducing	O
the	O
filter	O
on	O
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
and	O
other	O
search	B-Application
services	I-Application
,	O
the	O
police	O
authorities	O
are	O
trying	O
to	O
make	O
it	O
more	O
difficult	O
for	O
users	O
to	O
find	O
child	O
pornography	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
has	O
developed	O
all	O
of	O
its	O
search	B-Application
service	I-Application
in-house	O
,	O
including	O
spidering	O
of	O
the	O
Web	O
,	O
indexing	O
of	O
image	O
,	O
video	O
,	O
and	O
audio	O
files	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
efficient	O
way	O
of	O
distributing	O
the	O
results	O
to	O
users	O
from	O
all	O
parts	O
of	O
the	O
world	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Picsearch	B-General_Concept
's	O
algorithms	O
are	O
patented	O
in	O
Sweden	O
and	O
patent-pending	O
in	O
the	O
EU	O
and	O
the	O
United	O
States	O
.	O
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